Hand-painted white (stick figure) ~ Japanese monster culture

Xiao Bai used to be a big fan of Riemann. I saw many lovely and charming monster characters in Riman.

For example, Niang kou San San

But the human body is gorgeous.

And Tomoe sauce.

Xiao Bai once read a book about Japanese monsters, "A Hundred Ghosts Walk at Night". After reading it, he felt extremely scared. Xiao Bai thinks monster culture is a very interesting culture in Japanese culture. About 70% Japanese monsters were introduced to Japan during the Tang Dynasty, and today's Japanese monsters were formed through the integration of Japanese and local cultures.

Monsters were originally born out of awe of nature and animals. In ancient times, people's scientific and cultural level was very low, and there were many things that people could not understand. In order to explain some natural phenomena that people don't understand, people call their invisible, intangible and uncontrollable forces monsters.

Japan's monster culture is closely related to the natural geographical environment. Japan is an island country surrounded by water, so many monsters are related to water. For example, Qiaomei is a female ghost who drowned herself for love; River boy, bad river boy will drag people into the water and eat human internal organs.

At the same time, Japan is a mountainous island and many monsters live in the mountains. For example, Snow Girl is a woman who was abandoned by her lover in the snow-capped mountains, tempting pedestrians to freeze to death. Prajna is an evil spirit formed by women's strong jealousy and resentment. She lives in the deep mountains and eats people at midnight every day. She is a ghost who steals food from children. Monsters are scary and awesome in the early days.

The ancient Japanese government set up a special wizard-Yin. During the Heian period, Japan's domestic society was in turmoil, the people were in poverty, and the ruling class had no solution, so all kinds of problems were blamed on ghosts and gods (government-style throwing pot _ (:3 "? )_)。 Therefore, people are afraid of violating certain taboos and causing revenge from ghosts and gods, so the teacher of Yin and Yang is worshipped and relied on by people and has great rights.

Abe Harumi is an active teacher of Yin and Yang in the middle period of heian period. He was the ancestor of the Tuzuka family who ruled Yin, Yang and Liao from Kamakura to the early Meiji period. Abe Harumi is an expert who is very proficient in the related technologies of "the way of celestial phenomena" and "the way of yin and yang" at the forefront of science and technology and incantations at that time, and is a great teacher of yin and yang trusted by Ping 'an nobles. His life story was also mystified, which gave birth to many legendary stories. At the age of 79, he was awarded the title of "Fa Qingyuan". There is a famous saying in the Edo era, "I don't know the source of righteousness, but I know the inscrutable Gong". Since then, Abe Harumi has been known as the "enigmatic palace" and is a household name in Japan.

Netease launched a Yin and Yang mobile game.

Xiao Bai drew some stick figures.

During the Edo period, Japanese commercial handicrafts gradually flourished. People are no longer so dependent on nature and have the ability to transform nature, so monsters are no longer so terrible. Many monsters live in all kinds of things. Such as umbrellas, wooden fish, pots, brooms and other old items, because they have to be discarded and become monsters.

Japanese monsters have two sides, and good and evil can be transformed into each other. For example, hating the soul, if properly enshrined, can also become a patron saint. Japanese monsters are 70% from China, 20% from India, and 10% are Japanese monsters.

For example, the big dog was originally the dog monster in China's Shan Hai Jing. After spreading to Japan, it gradually combined with the heavenly demons in Buddhism and the mountain gods in Shinto, and became a modern image.

Cat demon: It is said that cats have nine lives. After nine years, a tail will grow, one every nine years, and nine tails will grow all the time. When the cat with nine lives becomes human nine years later, it really has nine lives. In China, it is also called the Nine-Life Cat Demon.

Rain girl: On a rainy day, a woman stood in the rain. If a man smiles at her and signals her to use an umbrella, she will always follow him. From then on, this man will live in a humid environment forever, because ordinary people can't resist such heavy humidity, so he will die soon.

Ghost Bite: I appeared in tales of mystery. The college introduced by Hiroshi Takahashi is like a glowing bait before the head of a deep-sea fish. Beauty is the bait in front of the ghost head, which grows on its long tongue to lure people to save her and then eat them. .

Blue light: The earliest legend is in the Edo period in Japan. It is said that they all have different appearances, but they are very terrible ghosts. He is not a man, but a kid in hell. He often wanders around the gate of the underworld, and he will become a familiar person and instigate people to play a game called Hundred Ghost Lights (Hundred Ghost Lights: light 100 white candles, and then everyone will tell a strange and horrible thing they have experienced in turn. And the100th story was told by the host. When the last candle goes out, everyone who participates in the game will be taken to hell.

Zuo Fu boy: This is a good ghost. He often plays with children. If your child is laughing and running around as if someone is playing with him, then he is playing with Zuo Fu boy.

Snow Girl: Living in the deep mountains, she has a beautiful appearance almost like human beings. She often attracts men who enter the snow-capped mountains to places where no one is there and kisses him. When kissing, she will completely freeze them, take away her soul and eat them. Snow Girl's child is called Xue Tong. In Japan, Xue Tong is considered as the monster that brings the first snow in winter. In Japan, people think that the snow boy is the monster that brings the first snow in winter. Snow girls are all peerless beauties, and their nature is cold. They belong to the mountain gods and are in charge of the snow in winter. The young snow girl is harmless to people, and the adult snow girl will freeze her favorite human male forever and bring it back to the cave where she lives and put it up for her to watch.

Bone girl: a woman who was insulted, bullied and ravaged at birth. After she died of resentment, she became a ghost and demanded her life. With only a pile of bones left, she disguised herself with human skin and was called a ghost painter in China.

Luo Yan: Fireworks can make people's eyes blurred, which stems from human's fear of fireworks.

Luochengmen Ghost: It has a frightening face, but it is a god. It is a monster guarding the gate, but occasionally it plays pranks and scares people half to death. They guard the door not for human beings, but to guide those ghosts who have strayed into human settlements to the right path.

Birds caught: pregnant women with dead children stole other people's children and were very afraid of dogs.

All right, Xiao Bai, is that enough for today? ()